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Post by melikepie on Jan 3, 2014 23:25:15 GMT
Why are the voices out of sync?
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jan 4, 2014 0:04:35 GMT
Nah. I like "The Sweeney", "The Professionals", "The Avengers" etc. London of yesteryear. It's great fun trying to work out some of the locations, especially if it involves a tube or rail station.  I have to agree, 70's and 80's TV is IMO superior to many of today's offerings and I include the comedies, many of which would not be allowed to be shown now because of the ridicuous PC world which we are now forced to endure. Thank God for ITV3 and ITV4 !!! To an extent I'd agree with this statement although nowadays, despite my own advancing years and almost pathological dislike of most modern TV, tend to cringe at some of the dialogue presented by the broadcasters of my youth. One thing almost constant in The Sweeney and The Professionals was that all the villains wore black leather gloves (watch them and you'll see what I mean) so it was a lot easier to spot the wrong'un straight away. Nowadays you actually have to listen to the plot to spot the chummie. Also, when a major character's wife got killed it was the done thing to commemorate the occasion by drinking an enormous bottle of whisky "daan to the label George" before driving home. Great stuff and almost as believable as Dixon of Dock Green, a ludicrous (when you stop to think about it) program about a front line copper (of way, way past pensionable age) which I also watched with reverence and despite all of this, still feel warm about today.  Filming on the Underground is undoubtedly a lot more difficult these days due to various considerations. District Dave's Rusty Rail awards are a good idea on here, if only to allow transporty spleens to be vented instead of on a BBC board where the complaints would be met with incredulity! Rich |
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Post by railtechnician on Jan 4, 2014 1:06:27 GMT
I have to agree, 70's and 80's TV is IMO superior to many of today's offerings and I include the comedies, many of which would not be allowed to be shown now because of the ridicuous PC world which we are now forced to endure. Thank God for ITV3 and ITV4 !!! To an extent I'd agree with this statement although nowadays, despite my own advancing years and almost pathological dislike of most modern TV, tend to cringe at some of the dialogue presented by the broadcasters of my youth. One thing almost constant in The Sweeney and The Professionals was that all the villains wore black leather gloves (watch them and you'll see what I mean) so it was a lot easier to spot the wrong'un straight away. Nowadays you actually have to listen to the plot to spot the chummie. Also, when a major character's wife got killed it was the done thing to commemorate the occasion by drinking an enormous bottle of whisky "daan to the label George" before driving home. Great stuff and almost as believable as Dixon of Dock Green, a ludicrous (when you stop to think about it) program about a front line copper (of way, way past pensionable age) which I also watched with reverence and despite all of this, still feel warm about today. Filming on the Underground is undoubtedly a lot more difficult these days due to various considerations. District Dave's Rusty Rail awards are a good idea on here, if only to allow transporty spleens to be vented instead of on a BBC board where the complaints would be met with incredulity! Rich You'll find that programmes like the Sweeney were much closer to the reality of the day than you might now care to believe. There was drinking on the job there just as there was at LT and most other organisations as part of the culture of the time. Dixon of Dock Green was fairly ludicrous but it did promote a then popular 'local bobby' image which I can certainly recall from my youth especially after having my ear clipped for being caught on a bombed out site still extant in the early 1960s and on a previous occasion being taken home by a copper when my mother 'lost' me whilst shopping. As for listening to the plot in modern productions, the sound quality is often substandard and coupled with the mumbling of many modern actors and actresses makes it difficult to follow a plot and modern movies are just as poorly produced. Never forget that so much is different today and I would have to say worse too. The vast majority of today's kids will never know the freedoms or the hardships of the average working class family of the 1950s and 1960s and will probably never understand the humour of seaside postcards. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2014 1:42:48 GMT
Is the South Acton platform at Acton Town usable for filming?
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Post by trt on Jan 4, 2014 1:54:19 GMT
You'll find that programmes like the Sweeney were much closer to the reality of the day than you might now care to believe. There was drinking on the job there just as there was at LT and most other organisations as part of the culture of the time. Just finished watching "The Great Train Robbery". Not bad - a few anachronisms and a few dodgy shots, like the single tracked WCML that suddenly became twin tracked in the reverse angle shots... but very watch-able. Oh, and everybody smoked! All the time! |
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Post by revupminster on Jan 4, 2014 7:50:04 GMT
Another excellent police series from the 60's before the police had radios is Gideons Way which featured lots of location filming in London. In these excepts it only concentrates on the villains (Darren Nesbit and a John Hurt who's potential was there to be seen) and nearly all the location work and police procedurals are missing.
Because it was the last of the black and white series it is never repeated but has some excellent character led stories. Just found Big Fish, Little Fish it is a look at east end life that is not pleasant.
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Post by railtechnician on Jan 4, 2014 9:00:38 GMT
Another excellent police series from the 60's before the police had radios is Gideons Way which featured lots of location filming in London. In these excepts it only concentrates on the villains (Darren Nesbit and a John Hurt who's potential was there to be seen) and nearly all the location work and police procedurals are missing. Because it was the last of the black and white series it is never repeated but has some excellent character led stories. Just found Big Fish, Little Fish it is a look at east end life that is not pleasant. Gideons Way was an excellent series which I used to watch in the mid 1960s. I recall John Gregson as the main character. About the same time was another police series, No Hiding Place, the main character played by Raymond Francis and one of his two sergeant sidekicks was one very young Johnny Briggs more recently known as Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street (a soap that should have left our TV screens decades ago). |
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Post by railtechnician on Jan 4, 2014 9:04:38 GMT
Is the South Acton platform at Acton Town usable for filming? Not unless the site has been cleaned up and decluttered in the last 9 years since I last used it. |
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Post by railtechnician on Jan 4, 2014 9:10:32 GMT
Why are the voices out of sync? Satellite TV is the usual reason for that. Power cycle your satellite decoder and quite often sync will be restored for a while until it gets out of step again. Sometimes flicking through the channels will have the same effect. |
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Post by DWS on Jan 4, 2014 9:28:03 GMT
Is the South Acton platform at Acton Town usable for filming? No the platform is used for storage and the track has been removed. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 19:46:41 GMT
That layout looked familiar, was it Abbey Road? That layout was indeed Abbey Road by the marvellous Mr Polley. It appeared at our exhibition in Milton Keynes last February and was very popular, especially with those of us organising the show as John and team had it up and running in 15 mins flat  www.mkmrs.org.uk/exhibitions/2013-review |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jan 5, 2014 21:06:26 GMT
Watching the latest Sherlock right now. The wedding breakfast scene is absolutely priceless. Had me in stitches. Exceptionally clever scripting, acting and direction.
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Post by 1018509 on Jan 5, 2014 23:10:39 GMT
Another excellent police series from the 60's before the police had radios is Gideons Way which featured lots of location filming in London. In these excepts it only concentrates on the villains (Darren Nesbit and a John Hurt who's potential was there to be seen) and nearly all the location work and police procedurals are missing. Because it was the last of the black and white series it is never repeated but has some excellent character led stories. Just found Big Fish, Little Fish it is a look at east end life that is not pleasant. Gideons Way was an excellent series which I used to watch in the mid 1960s. I recall John Gregson as the main character. About the same time was another police series, No Hiding Place, the main character played by Raymond Francis and one of his two sergeant sidekicks was one very young Johnny Briggs more recently known as Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street (a soap that should have left our TV screens decades ago). I would've killed for the Humber Super Snipe that was Lockhart's vehicle. |
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Post by John Tuthill on Jan 6, 2014 8:27:38 GMT
Gideons Way was an excellent series which I used to watch in the mid 1960s. I recall John Gregson as the main character. About the same time was another police series, No Hiding Place, the main character played by Raymond Francis and one of his two sergeant sidekicks was one very young Johnny Briggs more recently known as Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street (a soap that should have left our TV screens decades ago). I would've killed for the Humber Super Snipe that was Lockhart's vehicle. Or the Wolsley 6/90 he used in later episodes  |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jan 12, 2014 22:09:02 GMT
"Miss me?" Moriaty lives! Great entertainment, even Mrs. Whistlekiller was impressed! Corking episode. Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat really have nailed this and have got to grips with the very essence of Holmes. They've always been the masters of the dark stuff with The League Of Gentlemen and various episodes of Doctor Who like "Blink" but this does the lot. Gentlemen, brilliant stuff IMHO! Rich |
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Post by revupminster on Jan 12, 2014 22:34:49 GMT
"Miss me?" Moriaty lives! Great entertainment, even Mrs. Whistlekiller was impressed! Corking episode. Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat really have nailed this and have got to grips with the very essence of Holmes. They've always been the masters of the dark stuff with The League Of Gentlemen and various episodes of Doctor Who like "Blink" but this does the lot. Gentlemen, brilliant stuff IMHO! Rich And they got Leinster Square into the story. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 14, 2014 12:25:24 GMT
And they got Leinster Square into the story. Is that near Leicester Gardens? (No spoilers please, I haven't seen it yet!) |
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Post by John Tuthill on Jan 14, 2014 13:14:07 GMT
And they got Leinster Square into the story. Is that near Leicester Gardens? (No spoilers please, I haven't seen it yet!) I didn't watch this, nobody will come close to Jeremy Brett for his portrayal of SH. Probably referring to 23/24 Leinster Gardens. If you don't know the significance to UG buffs well................. |
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Post by phillw48 on Jan 14, 2014 16:41:11 GMT
Going off topic here but I'm surprised some one at TfL hasn't thought about roofing over the tracks behind the facade of 23/24 Leinster Gardens and building apartments or offices above.
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Post by domh245 on Jan 14, 2014 16:41:50 GMT
And they got Leinster Square into the story. Is that near Leicester Gardens? (No spoilers please, I haven't seen it yet!) Nope, Lenister Gardens is near Bayswater, and there are 2 houses which are just facades, the back of them having been knocked out to allow for the old kettles to vent. This page has some good photos and explanations of it. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 14, 2014 17:12:00 GMT
Is that near Leicester Gardens? (No spoilers please, I haven't seen it yet!) Nope, Lenister Gardens is near Bayswater, and there are 2 houses which are just facades, the back of them having been knocked out to allow for the old kettles to vent. This page has some good photos and explanations of it. I should have put a smiley on my comment on the earlier poster's apparent confusion between Leicester Square and Leinster Gardens. I don't know which was referred to in Sherlock (need to find a spare 90 minutes to watch it in), but LG certainly seems to have potential as a Sherlock Holmes plot. (The Bruce Partington files comes to mind, although the dreadful deed in that case was done somewhere near the Kensington triangle. |
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Post by 1018509 on Feb 5, 2014 23:23:09 GMT
Going off topic here but I'm surprised some one at TfL hasn't thought about roofing over the tracks behind the facade of 23/24 Lenister Gardens and building apartments or offices above. Like Lenister Gardens residents would like an office block built in their back yard.  |
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Post by phillw48 on Feb 6, 2014 9:21:19 GMT
Going off topic here but I'm surprised some one at TfL hasn't thought about roofing over the tracks behind the facade of 23/24 Lenister Gardens and building apartments or offices above. Like Lenister Gardens residents would like an office block built in their back yard. The adjoining properties are now a hotel and an apartment block so more apartments would surely be acceptable. |
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